Sarah L. Kiefer
@sarahkiefer.bsky.social
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4th year PhD student @Brown studying cognitive development
https://slkiefer.github.io/
I’m teaching a summer course and I want to have a mock-conference day where we watch short conference-style talks for one part of the class and do a mock poster session for another! Does anyone have suggestions (&links) for recent cog-dev talks available online I can share with my students?? 👀
10 days ago
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Sarah L. Kiefer
Carolyn Baer
27 days ago
New paper in
@nathumbehav.nature.com
with
@simonag.bsky.social
and Darko Odic! We show that young children and adults use different internal signals for reporting memory versus perceptual confidence judgements. But by age six, the internal signals become comparable. Free access link:
rdcu.be/fgZvV
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Domain generality is an emergent, not inherent, property of metacognition
Nature Human Behaviour - Adults show a shared bias in confidence across memory and perception, but sensitivity and efficiency differ by domain. Children under six struggle to compare confidence...
https://rdcu.be/fgZvV
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Sarah L. Kiefer
Elise Mahaffey
about 2 months ago
Come see the Lucca/ Benitez labs present at CDS! I’ll be presenting results of a registered report project investigating 5-8 year olds’ and adults’ inferences about learning and teaching with difficult tasks (poster session 4)
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Sarah L. Kiefer
Causality and Mind Lab @ Brown University
2 months ago
We can't wait for CDS 2026 in Montréal! See below for presentation details 👀📣‼️
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Zoe Liberman
3 months ago
New paper with Ben Morris and Alex Shaw out last week in
@cognitionjournal.bsky.social
! We find that children are sensitive to who has better evidence when evaluating how people behave in disagreements.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Calibrated deference: Children's evaluations of responses to disagreement across knowledge gaps
Declaring that you are right or wrong is not merely a factual matter, but often a deeply social decision about when to own up to the limits of your kn…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027726000387?dgcid=coauthor
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Sarah L. Kiefer
Causality and Mind Lab @ Brown University
3 months ago
🧠💥 New Paper Alert! Congratulations to our very own
@sarahkiefer.bsky.social
& Dr. David Sobel - Children's decision to challenge themselves on a novel task relates to their metacognitive monitoring of their ability Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1093/chid...
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New paper out in Child Development (
@srcdorg.bsky.social
) with Dave Sobel (
@candmlab.bsky.social
)! ✨ We investigated how 5- to 7-year-old children decide to take on easy versus hard tasks while pursuing a goal.
doi.org/10.1093/chid...
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Children's decision to challenge themselves on a novel task relates to their metacognitive monitoring of their ability
Abstract. We examined potential processes by which children decide to make hard as opposed to easy choices to accomplish a goal. Five- to 7-year olds (N =
https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacaf045
3 months ago
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Sarah L. Kiefer
Mia Radovanovic
4 months ago
Out in
@cognitionjournal.bsky.social
with
@jaeminhwang.bsky.social
, David Sobel (
@candmlab.bsky.social
), and
@jessicas.bsky.social
! Most studies of infants’ fairness expectations focus on resource distribution, but in everyday life, we engage in many different kinds of resource exchanges.
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Last week I gave my 1st conference talk at
#SRCD2025
in a symposium
@elisemahaffey.bsky.social
and I co-chaired together “The effort equation: Towards an integrative understanding of the factors that drive children’s adaptive persistence” with speakers
@elainewang.bsky.social
and Alexis Burke!
about 1 year ago
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Sarah L. Kiefer
Elise Mahaffey
about 1 year ago
The Early Child Cognition Research Group at ASU (PIs: Kelsey Lucca and Viridiana Benitez) will be presenting our work at
#SRCD2025
! Hope to see you there!
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Sarah L. Kiefer
Causality and Mind Lab @ Brown University
about 1 year ago
Come see our work
@srcdorg.bsky.social
! See details below for talks, posters, and locations! Looking forward to it‼️
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